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Friday, July 23, 2010

TF3 Chicago: Soundwave Spotted, More Images and Video

Transformers 3 production continues somewhere in Chicago but until more information comes in, here is more images and a video from last weekend's filming in the city. As the image to the left shows, Soundwave joins the Chicago battle, bringing the first confirmation that this Decepticon returns. The stick head is used as actor eye line and camera reference point so it seems he will also interact at some level with the human characters.

That image, and the below animated gifs and more are thanks to Pixel Rally. The gifs show off an explosion moment from in front of Hotel 71 while the other three show Bay giving instructions to Shia LaBeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley who then do two practice runs of tumbling away from an overturned SUV. The full set of pictures can be found at flickr. Thanks to Kel for pointing out the Soundwaves images in the set. The set also includes two videos from filming over the last two weeks. One from is pyrotechnics going off in front of the Michigan Avenue Bridge and the other from the skydiving stunt from two weeks ago.

If interested in reading more, OK Magazine has posted a gallery of images of Josh Duhamel at work while Shia watched. Thanks to John for the link. Also the below video comes from Film Junk and shows yet another angle from the Hotel 71 intersection shoot. Sadly I have no idea what areas Transformers 3 production will be working this weekend but assume in the same general Michigan Avenue area.

Sorry guys, but at first I copied it and searched with google and nothing cam out of the link, but when I pasted it in the browser it worked.

And yes, there walks a man with the head on a white stick. And I can see now in the pic above that the head leans to the tripod, it's very misleading.

@anon above, it's the head from the Soundwave toy.Maybe cause Soundwave has come to earth and he needs another altmode, most likely the Suburban, he also gets another head, that is also smaller, cause his head in ROTF was quite large, so they now use the head of the toy, makes sense, and they don't need to make a new design.

@Paul DesThen again he might just be saying that and introducing a resurection of "The Fallen" we have no idea of any of the fact. Even if this was Shockwave`s face for filming, Bay has replaced the face`s with others in the past. He used Ironhide`s to mark Bumblebee`s place during ROTF filming.